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[Nikki Locke]

giabbe1, on Dec 3 2009, 14:24, said:

And please, can someone also posts a simple and comprehensive step-by-step tutorial for super-newbies on how to go from an out of the box pulse to this rom installed and working

Here is my attempt:

Install the CD that came with the phone onto your PC - this is necessary to install USB drivers, adb, etc., so the computer can talk to the phone.

Plug the USB cable in, and make sure the drivers load OK, and that you can see the phone.

Make sure you have synced all your contacts somewhere off the phone, and backed up everything you want to keep.

Download (to your PC) the superboot root image http://loadbalancing...255m95n7i5x53sh

and the recovery image http://loadbalancing...gl5iiciea41vu4t

and the MoDaCo Custom 8230 ROM http://loadbalancing...izd3ae3bcbh1gow

and the stock T-Mobile image (in case of emergency) http://loadbalancing...yfiovy4dsq4a7ch

Turn the phone off, and unplug the USB cable.

Hold the volume down and red (end call) buttons, and press the power button. This puts the phone into bootloader mode.

Plug in the USB cable.

Unzip the superboot file, copy AdbWinApi.dll from the CD that came with the phone into the 1.1-pulse-superboot folder, and run .install-superboot-windows.bat.

Unzip the amonrecovery zip, copy AdbWinApi.dll from the CD that came with the phone into the 1.0-pulse-amonrarecovery folder, and run ._install-recovery-windows.bat.

Now restart the phone by removing the battery.

Go into the applications list (bottom right button on the home screen), and run the "Quick Boot" application that superboot has installed. Choose Recovery, and, when you get the sudo screen asking whether to allow root access, allow it. This puts the phone into recovery mode, which I think is a kind of boot image provided by amonrecovery. It's a bit like Windows recovery mode, or booting a Windows machine with a floppy disk - you can do stuff, but the main operating system is not running.

The first useful thing to do is to take a backup of the entire phone, using the Nandroid Backup option on the recovery menu. This backs up a complete image of the phone's ROM to the SD card, which you can restore later. I then turned USB mass storage on (so I could get to the SD card from my computer), and backed up that image to my computer.

Now wipe the phone by choosing the factory reset option. You will lose all your settings at this point!

Rename the MoDaCo ROM zip (update-pulse-u8230edition-1.0-core-signed.zip) to plain update.zip, and copy it from your computer onto the SD card.

Turn off USB mass storage (so the phone can see the SD card again), and run the "Apply sdcard:update.zip" option. This installs the MoDaCo ROM image.

Finally reboot the phone (from the menu). The reboot takes ages. This is to be expected.

Now test out your new phone. If happy, download your applications again (the My Downloads option in Market should still show them, and even the paid for ones should download and reinstall OK).

If not happy, go back into recovery mode, and restore the backup you took.

[bounty123]

Thanks for the detailed info.

I'd like a confirmation on a matter, which I'm not entirely sure of and caused some debates among us.

Let's say I have to send my customized (recovery img+modaco rom) phone in for warranty service. I therefore reinstall the original ROM on it. Does this also delete the recovery image, so t-mobile can't find out that it was customized at all? Or should the recovery image be deleted in some other way? After putting back the original ROM, can the recovery mode even be accessed in any way?

[JingleManSweep]

Hello,

I just tried to replace my firmware, and...

Scrap that, it is working. Cheers Paul, just took a few minutes to boot. Haven't explored the new ROM much yet, just sorting out my Gmail account settings. Looks great so far. Expect a donation from me shortly to help pay for that new Pulse you just bought yourself (again).

Louis

[Nikki Locke]

Hi, Paul

I notice that /system/build.prop has (amongst other things)...

ro.product.locale.language=fr
ro.product.locale.region=FR

Would it be helpful to change these to English?

I also notice
ro.build.host=localhost.localdomain
If I make the filesystem rw, and change this to something else, will it give me a proper hostname, which works with DHCP?

Is this stuff documented anywhere?

Nikki

[PaulOBrien]

Not sure on locale / region, but yes, ro.build.host should give you a proper hostname.

P

[martinbrook]

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new android and new kernel.


Just having difficulty with roadsync. Anyone else having issues logging in.  Was OK with stock kernel and stock android and also OK with new kernel and stock android.  Someone mentioned ssl?


Martin

[PaulOBrien]

Cool Martin. Does DDMS / adb logcat work with your new kernel?

P

[psionandy]

Nikki Locke, on Dec 3 2009, 19:00, said:

Hi, Paul

I notice that /system/build.prop has (amongst other things)...

ro.product.locale.language=fr
ro.product.locale.region=FR

Would it be helpful to change these to English?

I also notice
ro.build.host=localhost.localdomain
If I make the filesystem rw, and change this to something else, will it give me a proper hostname, which works with DHCP?

Is this stuff documented anywhere?

Nikki

would those FRs explain why my calendar is in french...... any idea how I can change it on the device?

[martinbrook]

Paul, on Dec 3 2009, 21:07, said:

Cool Martin. Does DDMS / adb logcat work with your new kernel?

P

I posted to a thread earlier :-

QUOTE(martinbrook @ Nov 30 2009, 20:57) Will have a look here.  I did get a device id from my kernel at the weekend instead of the usual ???????????

logcat working on the new kernel both on the device from adb shell and from the host adb logcat.

Had to clear the buffers first with adb logcat -c

As specified here :-

> Yes it is a reproducible case. Exact content of the log change but it
> always finish by "logcat read: Invalid argument" and I need to restart
> the mobile to be able to read any log again.
> It seems that something is getting twisted up in the logging.
This really seems like a bug, but there is a quick workaround:
run "adb logcat -c" once to clear the log, then "adb logcat" will work again until the log fills up.

Florian

Martin

Don't know what DDMS is, YET.

Any ideas on roadsync.  I think it has somthing to do with the ssl stuff.  Again I don't know anything about that, YET

standing on the shoulders of giants

[racingclub]

psionandy, on Dec 3 2009, 21:16, said:

would those FRs explain why my calendar is in french...... any idea how I can change it on the device?

Settings - Locale & Text - Select Locale - English

I had to reboot after as well

[martinmax]

When i try to use PC Suite ive had problem. Pc Suite recognises the phone but its limited in options i cant import , export contacs etc . the only option is just syncronise . When i instal mcr 1.3 its fine , pc suite works , i hope someone will repair this bug

[Neron]

Neron, on Dec 3 2009, 18:23, said:

Just to let you know Paul this rom feels alot faster to use than the MCR 1.3 based on the stock Tmobile ROM.

Paul I only issues I have found is with the groups tab in the phonebook and I am having some issues with bluetooth handfree not passing though the audio.

But overall I think if I wipe my handset and reload it cought fix these issues. Thanks again!

[beshmeee]

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I'm pleased to present my MoDaCo Custom ROM for the T-Mobile Pulse! A 'wipe' is highly recommended it switching from the Standard ROM / T-Mobile style MCR ROM!


Seems to be working fine, updated all apps - didn't take too long.  Does seem snappier, ShopS works.

***but still no GeoTagging it seems, using two apps that say they do GeoTag - one paid for!***

Anyway - my donation is winging its way to MoDaCo (just click the PayPal link above if you haven't already!!!) - keep up this tremendous dev work Paul and all.  Humble users like myself are very grateful indeed.

B.C.H.

Edited by beshmeee, 04 December 2009 - 12:24 AM.

[martinbrook]

Hi Paul,

'Any ideas on roadsync.  I think it has somthing to do with the ssl stuff.  Again I don't know anything about that, YET'

I've fixed my immediate issue getting roadsync to work with the french stack but I don't yet know why.

If I run removedropbear.sh roadsync works. The ssh password string is gone from the model number in about.

It seems roadsync is using the ssh password when it logs into the exchange server.

Martin

standing on the shoulders of giants

[mapero]

martinbrook, on Dec 4 2009, 02:15, said:

Hi Paul,

'Any ideas on roadsync.  I think it has somthing to do with the ssl stuff.  Again I don't know anything about that, YET'

I've fixed my immediate issue getting roadsync to work with the french stack but I don't yet know why.

If I run removedropbear.sh roadsync works. The ssh password string is gone from the model number in about.

It seems roadsync is using the ssh password when it logs into the exchange server.

Martin

standing on the shoulders of giants

Strange, since the dropbear pwd is saved in a simple textfile in the dropbear folder. dunno why roadsync should try to access this file.
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Tried to install the Touchpal German Pack from http://android.modac...t...st&id=42783
But Touchpal keeps crashing everytime i activate German. Guess this pack is for the older version of touchpal. Any idea where to get the right one?

thx, mapero

Edited by mapero, 04 December 2009 - 07:54 AM.

[205er]

 Hi,

another bug from the original t-mobile rom is also not gone in this release:

When you play a youtube-vid the music app starts up by its own and plays a music file. This only happens when a headset is plugged in.
Any chance to fix that?

Ciao

Edited by 205er, 04 December 2009 - 08:02 AM.

[davos1]

To Paul: It would be awesome if you could give us a tutorial on cooking android ROMs ourselves, then you wouldn't be the only one with the whole Pulse community resting on your shoulders.

[helikopter]

here are the bugs i've found so far:

- netcounter app doesn't count data through wifi
- roadsync not working at all
- youtube headphone bug (mentioned above), although the rom fixed the same bug with music player apps.
- when i try to fake a provider in market enabler the phone freezes when the counter reaches the 8th value that it tries to change.
- no geotagging possible although gps starts when the option is ticked. happens both in snap photo and camera zoom fx.

[PaulOBrien]

So does GPS work at all?

Anyone tested compass / bubble?

P

[helikopter]

Paul, on Dec 4 2009, 11:28, said:

So does GPS work at all?

Anyone tested compass / bubble?

P

compass works, gps (copilot and google maps) works, accelerometer (labyrinth lite) works.